We as humans love love. We need it, in fact, and we revisit it again and again in romantic stories. But what makes a great love story? What books can reach off the page and get us a little hit of that tingly, exhilarating, butterflies-in-the stomach feeling we crave?

To find out, we went straight to the source: a romance author and a bookseller.

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